Energy sits at the center of our lives, keeping us safe, productive, and comfortable.
Energy improves health, combats climate change, enables communication and education, generates income, and empowers women.
Creating access for a growing world population has become one of the biggest opportunities of our time.

Nearly half the planet lacks clean, affordable household energy, cooking meals on smoky open fires and having little or no electricity in their homes.
At BioLite, we engage in two distinct customer segments: off-grid households in emerging markets and outdoor recreation users seeking fuel-independent cooking and charging. Using a unique business model called Parallel Innovation, our team develops core energy technologies that are applicable to both markets. We then design products unique to our outdoor and emerging markets customers.

The Problem

Open fire cooking

causes over 4 million deaths per year, according to the World Health Organization.
Conditions like heart disease and COPD are directly linked to the
toxic smoke inhaled by the billions of people still cooking over biomass fires.

These open fires also release significant amounts
of CO2 and produce a staggering 25% of global black carbon emissions. This is more than all the world’s cars and trucks combined.

Access to electricity

is limited or non-existent for more than 1.2 billion people.
Families are forced to pay large amounts of their income to purchase dirty, expensive kerosene lamps for lighting.

Mobile phone usage by off-grid consumers is growing rapidly. While the mobile phone is a strong economic development tool,
locating reliable electricity for recharging remains elusive and expensive.